Karl J. Runge writes:
> Of course on a Windows box everybody is root, so one can any nasty thing
> they please because it is basically a single-user model.
Actually, for the longest damn time, there was no API for doing ICMP
on Windoze platforms -- there was no way to open a "raw" socket. I
think that this *finally* changed around a year or so ago with some
part of Winsock2.
This made writing portable NMS programs that depended on ICMP/ping
pretty painful.
--kevin (former chicken farmer, and *no*, I never used antibiotics)
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